J. Horace McFarland

(1859 - 1948)

Printer, horticulturist, conservationist, and "City Beautiful advocate. President, American Civic Association, 1904-24, and editor, "American Rose Annual," 1916-43. He worked successfully for preservation of Niagara Falls and creation of the National Park Service. McFarland stressed the duty of ...

Old Fort Davis CSA

Confederate supply point and frontier outpost on great military road from San Antonio to El Paso 1861-62. After surrendered by U. S. Army, occupied by detachment 2nd Texas Mounted Rifles. Apaches ambushed patrol from fort under Lt. Mays in Big ...

Assaulting the Confederate Battle Line

"The men pressed forward, holding their fire with wonderful self control till they were in plain site of the enemy almost face to face."

As the Federal troops realigned themselves after the creek crossing, and because of the shorter distance General ...

Old Coffee Road

The Old Coffee Road, first vehicular and postal route of this area, passed here running southwestward from the Ocmulgee River via today´s Lax, Nashville, Cecil, Barwick, and Thomasville to the Florida line above Tallahassee. The thoroughfare was opened by direction ...

First Meeting House

Near this spot stood the

First

Meeting House

of this

Settlement

1639 –– 1670

Marker is on Temple Street 0.1 miles south of Elm Street, on the right when traveling south.

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The Andy Griffith Show

The Andy Griffith Show.

A simpler time • a sweeter place •

a lesson • a laugh •

a father and a son.

Marker is on Rockford Street, on the right when traveling south.

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The Final Clash: With Fate Against Them

"There goes a chivalrous fellow. Let's give him three cheers."

Near this site were positioned Confederate forces commanded by General Joseph B. Kershaw. They were mainly from Mississippi and Georgia and were slightly dug in behind hastily built rail brestworks. In ...

Fairfax Herald & Print Shop

Built 1900

Old Town Fairfax

The Fairfax Herald was established in 1882 by Capt. S.R. Donohoe, who, in 1904 moved it to this small, one-story frame structure. The Herald remained in operation until 1966.

Marker is at the intersection of ...

Restoration of the James G. Willie Home

Originally built around 1865, the 1½ story rock home of James G. Willie is typical of the over 40 stone homes that were built in Mendon prior to 1880. Brigham Young encouraged early settlers to use native rocks for home ...

Huck's Defeat

On July 12, 1780, at Williamson's Plantation about one-fifth of a mile east from here, Loyalist forces under Capt. Christian Huck were defeated by American forces led by Cols. William Bratton, William Hill, Edward Lacey, Richard Winn, as well as ...